urning

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Etymology[edit]

From German Urning, from Latin Uranus; see Uranian for more.

Noun[edit]

urning (plural urnings)

  1. (obsolete) A homosexual person, especially a man.
    • 1886, Richard von Krafft-Ebing, Psychopathia Sexualis, F. A. Davis Co, published 1894, page 255:
      The urning loves and deifies the male object of his affections, just as a man idealizes the woman he loves.
    • 1940, Bob Mizer, diary entry quoted in Buying Gay: How Physique Entrepreneurs Sparked a Movement (2019), page 48
      My aim in life will be to create tolerance among mankind and especially to vindicate the decent, spiritual Urning

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